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Friday, 28 November 2008

Poetry please

Julian Gough celebrates an exciting new voice in poetry. This a sentence of Sarah Palin's that he has transcribed into the free verse into which he thinks it naturally falls, word for word. He has given this haunting piece the title 'The relevance of Africa'.

The Relevance of Africa

And the relevance to meWith that issue,As we spokeAbout Africa and someOf the countriesThere that wereKind of the people succumbingTo the dictatorsAnd the corruptionOf some collapsed governmentsOn the Continent,The relevanceWas Alaska’s.

Says Gough, 'She could be the most natural, visionary poet since Blake.'